Lazard Brothers was partially owned by Pearson PLC, the second largest shareholder in BSkyB. And there were parallel but interrelated tensions between Pearson and News Corp. on the one hand and Lazard and Goldman on the other.
Black, Conrad, 197 Blankfein, Lloyd C., 108, 109,225 block trading, 34 Blodget, Henry, 139, 142,217 Blondy, Steve, 161, 167 Bloomberg, Michael, ix blue books (pitch books), 3–6, 9–10, 26, 27–28 Blundell, Roger, 35 Blythe & Co., ...
. With refreshing candor and engaging prose, [this book] takes us inside the world of investment banking.”—James B. Stewart, author of Den of Thieves and DisneyWar “A RARE, RINGSIDE SEAT INSIDE THE MADCAP AND OFTEN EGOMANIACAL WORLD ...
become a full-fledged investment bank until 1906 when, along with, Lehman Brothers, it underwrote an offering for a small mail-order house owned by a distant relative of the Sachs family. That little company was Sears and its took three ...
. . For would-be bankers, the book is an excellent primer on what it’s really like; for current bankers it will be a guilty pleasure.” –The New York Times “Finally we have someone willing to lift the curtain. . .